ASUS P8P67 LGA1155 Motherboard Review

ASUS introduces several new features on their P8P67 motherboard series, sufch as the long-awaited UEFI to replace the traditional BIOS, DIGI+ VRM digital power management, Bluetooth remote overclocking control, and ASUS HyperDuo technology that combines a HDD with SSD to create a hybrid storage drive. Despite its many new features, the ASUS P8P67 motherboard is only one half of the equation. Designed as the performance platform for mainstream enthusiasts, the P67 series unlocks and multiplies performance with Intel Core-i3/i5/i7 'Sandy Bridge' processors. In this article, Benchmark Reviews will explore the ASUS P8P67 motherboard and test its overclocking limits with the unlocked Sandy Bridge Intel Core i7-2600K CPU.

There are two sides to the Sandy Bridge story: those that demonstrate how well this new Intel processor overclocks, and others that discuss how well the new motherboards harness its overclocking power. Benchmark Reviews has separately published our results of the Intel Core i7-2600K and Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge CPUs, allowing us to focus directly on manufacturer-specific features introduced by ASUS for their P8P67 series in this article. Intel has added native SATA 6Gb/s storage support on all LGA1155 motherboards, which ASUS further enhances with several newly introduced features:

MemOK! - Enables the motherboard to boot up successfully even if there might be some memory compatibility issues.

Proprietary features are what separate one motherboard from another. Generally speaking, without these special features the overall system performance would be approximately identical between P67-Express platforms. The discrete graphics card, system memory, central processor, and storage device performance usually deliver the same performance... unless the manufacturer has introduced additional technology or made design sacrifices that penalize pipeline performance. This article compares three different P67-Express motherboards against previous Intel and AMD platforms.

On 4 January 2011 Intel launched a series of desktop processors codenamed 'Sandy Bridge'. These new Core-i3/i5/i7 CPUs are designed to operate on Intel's P67-Express platform, which supports a new LGA1155 processor socket. While the Sandy Bridge processor architecture brings its own set of innovations, motherboard manufacturers have pushed back with several key improvements of their own. ASUS offers a full series of motherboards based around Intel's 6-series, which include the following models:

I ordered this motherboard and a i7 2006k processor last week and now I read somewhere that this peculiar motherboard has been recalled. I don't know if that's true, though I allready paid for both.Is there realy something wrong with this motherboard?When I go to amazon.com this item has simply vanished of the shelves and other asus motherboards aswell.by the way, thanX for your asus review for this was what made me move to LGA1155! I still believe asus is damn GOOD!

It's not THIS motherboard per se, it's a transistor flaw in the SATA-II 3.0GB/s controller of all current P67 and H67 chipsets that effects a very small number of products under certain conditions. Intel has said that the design issue is found in only 5% of the products.

Hello, First off great review on a great piece of tech =3. I have been using this for a few days and i couldn't be more impressed. However that being said i have a question. Is a network card required with the P67. I have been troubleshooting this for quite awhile and i cant find a solution -_-. Are there drivers to download? Am i making this too hard? I'm using a wired (cat6) internet connection. I honestly think its just windows goofing up but i would like to be certain. Thanks =)

Is a network card required? No, because it already comes with a network adapter. If you've got to ask if there are drivers, then perhaps it's time to get someone else to help you with your system. All hardware has drivers, but many of these items have drivers auto-installed from the built-in Windows driver library. For troubleshooting questions, visit: forum.benchmarkreviews.com

Let me be the First (maybe) to offer a new abbreviated terminology for the new UEFI. Since BIOS rolls easily off the tongue, UEFI simply does NOT lend itself to such an abbreviated form...so I propose that we start calling it the "WEEF", simply taking the sound that the first 3 letters would make in any other usage. Calling it "WEEFI" (long i) would confuse it with WiFi, so shortening it to weef would make sense (to me anyhoo). Or if weefI catches on, so be it.

Now if they could produce a board where the usb works it would be great. Can't even get a USB flash/sd card reader to work correctly even in the usb 2 ports. Mulitple rteaders work on other systems but no on the p67 deluxe. mulitpl bios updates. multiplwe driver installs and on and on. still no card readers working.what a loss

drivers have been REMOVED and installed multiple times. have another computer with different asus board same drivers. works like a champ. with software costs etc we am sitting with a $5500 white elephant that was intended as a high intensity photographic work station. Imagine annually running 10-15 thousand photos through a work station where you can't use a card reader.Oh there is a work around. You plug the compact flash card into the card reader first and then plug the card reader into the computer. Then when you are done with that card you unplug everytrhing. Plug a new compact flash card into the card reader and then plug the card reader into the computer. Works like a champ. Kind of like buying a new stick shift car where you have to come to a standstill every time you want to shift gears.

OK.Two different card readers would work fine on two different computers on different multiple ports but none of them would work on the 6 usb ports that were tried on the bad computer. The units were also tired with different compact flash cards. By the way we are working with Lexar dual readers compact/sd one card reader is the older USB 2 and one is the newer USB 3 card reader.The service rep has now disabled the raid c drives and has put an image of windows onto the solid state drive. The solid state drive is on the system to be used as the scratch memory for Adobe products. With this temporary arrangement it looks like both the USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports perform correctly. We now are in the process of trying to repair windows using the repair feature on the windows disk. The system disk does not have service pack 1 but it may work anyway. So now it looks like the problem can be blamed on some windows coruption. If the repair doesn't work then the software will be deactivated and windows will be reinstalled. By the way Lexar has said they have had some issues of card reader problems on both windows and mac computers but all seem to be unexplainable and random.When this is done I will provide some info back to them.

I haven't had any problem with the USB ports in mine. It's the basis of my Sandy Bridge Hackintosh now, and the rear USB ports work fine, and the card reader I have connected to the internal USB ports works fine, too...